Word: path
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...study of painting, sculpture, literature, and music. His plan is to give young people the power of appreciating art in its many forms and allow the creative ability to follow or develop naturally. The cultural side of this new plan is not wholly neglected, but approached by the single path of appreciation...
...offenders against this principle are divided into two groups. The one includes the ignorant, to whom the folly of a course of idleness is not clear. The other numbers those who, in full consciousness of the situation, deliberately choose the primrose path. The latter class is hopeless. If to the former, however, this danger signal shall be a prod and a stimulus, we shall be glad, for we feel that the curse of loafing is far from being on the decline. Clogate Maroon...
...such as this: "The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell with his provocative individualism, is hardly that." Why, indeed, must all distinguished ethical thought be anti-individualistic? Is only the man who swallows tradition, keeps in the straight and narrow path of past systems of morals, and who, above all, agrees with you--is only he a distinguished ethical thinker? Clearly, it is not Mr. Russell's distinction as a philosopher against which the writer directs this remark, but Mr. Russel's philosophy. If Mr. Russell is wrong in his attitude...
...belief of its invaluable utility. The real reason for the deficit can be traced to the unnecessary burdens placed upon the Union in the form of taxes and rent amounting to thousands of dollars yearly. Although the Governing Board consisting largely of undergraduates see clearly the obstacles in the path of the Union's success, they have tried in vain to obtain help from the graduates on the Board of Trustees. In the resolution drawn up by the Governing Board published in today's issue, an appeal is made to the Trustees of the Union and to the Administrative Board...
...deserved. As head of the University he has carried on the work begun by President Eliot, not merely as a capable administrator, but as a man of vision and foresight. Under his leadership Harvard has maintained her position among the first universities of the world, and has blazed the path to higher fields of scholarship. The war has dimmed the light of science and letters in Europe, but President Lowell has helped to keep the flame burning brightly in America. May he enjoy many birthdays as President of this University...